Bible Knowledge

Biblical maturity is never just about what you know, it's always about how much grace is employed in what you have come to know that has transformed the way you live. Knowledge is an accurate understanding of the truth. Wisdom though, is understanding and living in light of how that truth applies to the situations and relationships of our daily life. We can have big theological brains, have entire books of the Bible memorized, yet have a major heart disease. Bad things happen when maturity is more defined by knowing than it is by being. We need to tell God to help us understand how to live in light of what He is continually teaching us. If our lives become more knowledge and less grace filled living I find 7 dangers to us.

1-Spiritual blindness
We are blinded to our own lives and we forget that the word of God is a mirror into our soul. We try to fix people and forget about ourselves and our own journeys and lives with God.

2-Self-Righteous
We begin to judge others and look at their lives compared to our knowledge. We forget to shine the light of the Word on our own soul and become prideful in what we know and what we see in others.

3-Lack a Devotional heart
Our hearts start to become hard and we forget what grace is. We become so hard and dysfunctional that we have forgotten the greatest commandment, which is to love God and love others. We have forget what love is.

4-Forgotten Gospel neediness
We then forget why Jesus even died. We know it all yet never tell ourselves the Gospel anymore and have forgot then cross completely. We begin to make Jesus our God after our image.

5-Impatient with others
We have come to judge others and when others do not fit into our knowldge and our understanding we push them away and want nothing to do with them. We begin to hold others to a standard of living that we want and start to hold others sins and mistakes against them.

6-The "I" focus
All of a sudden when we have knowledge without grace, out faith become about us and I and me. If others
including God do not fit into what I see we move on.

7-No more communal living
Our knowledge drives us away from others and then ultimately from God. We have begun a disconnect and it results in a disconnect from others in the faith and finally from Jesus and our relationship to Him. We have become scholars of our won religion.

So, do we amass head knowledge without letting it saturate, infiltrate, change, and mold us? We can know Scripture, but it must change us and allow us to love God deeper, love others more graciously, and drive us to our knees. That is the reason God gave us His word, to mold us into the image of His Son, not make us smarter.